My last date was in Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire. We’d stayed the night before in Preston, with Mark’s parents. We got crumpets and bacon and eggs and tea and ginger nuts. I mentioned I couldn’t get Ginger Nuts in Holland and so, the next morning, his Mum picked me up a double pack from ASDA. They lasted a day or …
ON THE ROAD
AN ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BY
JAMIE DOBSON
CHARACTERS:
MARK COLEMAN
COLD, MOODY, WITH A GINGER BEARD AND BUSINESS-LIKE. MARK IS IN HIS LATE 20S, WAS BORN IN PRESTON, NORTH ENGLAND, GRADUATED IN MATHEMATICS BEFORE GETTING CAUGHT IN A JOB SO BAD THEY HAD TO PAY HIM VAST AMOUNTS OF MONEY TO DO …
8th of November, 2010, 14:02, Glasgow.
They say that during the siege of Stalingrad, the heavy ones died first. Or, as Peter put it, ‘the smack-heads were the last to drop’. In the armies, only the horses were fed by weight. Last night, at the gig, I fell asleep on a chair. My …
7th of November, 2010, 16:57
We are in an apartment, now, in Glasgow. The trip over took us over the Firth of Forth bridge, an engineering wonder, and into a small village called Glenfarg, where we had a Sunday roast for brunch. The Glenfarg hotel was on the same road as a decrepit, shell of a building, the one …
23:25
Here we are, sat around Vanessa’s table somewhere in a flat in the nicer part of Edinburgh. Mark, to my right, is playing a banjo. To my left, Vanessa is doing the same. Signe is playing acoustic and singing. Peter’s head is lulling in silent comprehension. Steph is playing a game on the iPad. …
6th November, 2010, 11:??.
The good thing about gigs getting cancelled or just having a day off is that you get to hang out, wind each other up, coerce each other into behaving, into hurrying up, drinking up and shutting up.
We have an extra day in Edinburgh today and will be moving onto Glasgow today or tomorrow, depending on the sleeping …
5th of November, 2010, 17:51. Edinburgh.
The artist and the entrepreneur are not similar. They are the same. They are superficially childish; they reject the mothering of structure and routine, and the comforts and predictability that go with it, and instead choose to feel more fully. Process – from religious ceremony to the due process of law …
4th of November, 2010, 15:22 (there is no sun at my window).
This day started last night, at three o’clock in the morning. It seems, even at this early stage in the tour, that touring is about recovering and catching naps and calories at every free moment. I can’t say I like it too much. My muscles ache, …
It’s 3.30 and we are up because Mark has to get to Leeds airport. It’s a mild morning and a light night; no clouds and lots of stars.
We had fish and Chips last night but Peter opened his up and changed his mind. Mark and Steph had curry. She mugged Nick Tilsley in Coronation Street and was a hippy …
Wednesday, 3 November 2010, 11:31
We met accidentally in the street as I was walking to the club. We said hello and then Peter rooted in the back of the car for a bottle of Jameson’s and some merchandise. He then said, ‘it would be great if you could get me some weed’. I said I’d do my …
Tuesday, 2 November 2010, 14:39
The room I am in is lit by eight lights each with two fluorescent strips. My mate Andy told me that the light sabre battles in Star Wars were fought using them and that they’d have to cut, sweep up, and start again for every new strike. A Turkish couple have just been sat …
